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Friday, November 27, 2015

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning started with a little Facetiming with Uncle Aaron & Jayci.

I made my mom's stuffing recipe b/c that's my favorite Thanksgiving food. I vote stuffing over dressing every time. I made it last year and it was pretty good, but it was super dry this year. As I'm typing this, I think I figured out where I went wrong....not enough chicken broth. Better luck next year.

We drove to Darrin's cousin house for lunch.

We hosted the last two years, but the move put us a little farther away from family, so we are going to rotate with her every other year. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Miles was overwhelmed a little by the crowd. I had to force him to eat at the kid table. He wanted to eat by himself on the stairs leading to the basement :)

Miles with Keely...the cousin closest to his age....

After dinner, there was a lot of relaxing. A.K.A. playing on phones....

....and some swinging....

...and posing for pictures...

We also had a little meeting to plan a vacation to the beach next summer, which we have deemed "Cousins Camp". We think there might be t-shirts involved. We discussed a cruise, but as one of the husband's pointed out, if we all died together on a cruise there wouldn't be any pallbearers. Good thought. We opted for Orange Beach, AL in June instead. We are going to reconvene at Christmas and firm up our plans.

After a couple of hours of games & cards, we called it a day and headed home. Crystal came home with us for a little Black Friday shopping with me. We shopped from 9pm to 1am and then went back for more around 8am on Friday. We had a carload to show for our efforts. We may have started a new tradition. It was super fun.

So that was our Thanksgiving. We ate well and had fun visiting with Darrin's side of the family. Hope your Thanksgiving was a great one!

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About Us

Darrin and I met while working together at Goodyear Tire. From our first date to our wedding date was only 5 months. We got married on my 25th birthday. We are most definitely soul mates. After eight years of marriage, we had a son named Miles. Seven years later, little brother, Carson, came along. I became sick after having Miles, and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease a year and a half later. I mention it because I talk about it a lot on this blog.
Darrin is the head women’s volleyball coach at Union University. I work as a retail manager for a financial services company. We love our family, football, and Jesus. Life is good.